Congo: Congo's Weeping Forest: timbar014

Joseph Bangakya, Vice Governor of Orientale Province elected in the historic election held in late 2006, expresses his views and concerns on logging in his province at his office in Kisangani March 27, 2007. Photograph of Joseph Kabila, new president, is on the wall. After the election, DR Congo is in very critical period of transition, to part from old ways of corruption and way, to start anew.